Holding up the tails of horses after nicking



UN ITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GIBBONS GRAY, OF WESTGHESTER, PENNSYLVANIA.

HOLDING 'UP THE TAILS 0F HORSES AFTER NICKING.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 4,680, dated July 81, 1846.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, GIBBoNs GRAY, of Westchester, in the county of Chester and St-ate of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Apparatus for Holding Up the Tails of Horses after Ncking, and that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the principle or character thereof which distinguishes' my invention from all other things before known, and of the manner of making, constructing, and using the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figure lis a side view of the apparatus applied to a horse; Fig. 2 is a back view of the same; Fig. 3 is the supporting bow detached from the saddle with the springs connected.

The same letters indicate like parts in all the figures.

A serious inconvenience has always been experienced by veterinary surgeons, when pricking a horse or otherwise attempting to make him carry his tail up, in arranging a' proper apparatus in his stall by means of pulleys and weights more or less complicated in its construction; but all these present serious object-ions, they often cause great inflammation in the tail by their constant strain upon it when the horse is in any position, and if the horse should chance to get his head loose, he will, if he escapes from the' stall, be almost certain to pull the hair out of his tail. To avoid all these inconveniences, I have constructed an apparatus that will obviate all the difficulty, and the horse can receive airand exercise while his tail is elevated as well as at any other time, and may go through all his proper training.

The construction is as follows: A saddle (a) of ordinary construction is fastened to the horse by a belly girth and also by a breast band (b) over the cantle of the saddle, an iron bow (c)P is placed, its two ends being jointed to projections (d) that are screwed to the sides of the cantle; this bow stands up sufciently high to have the tail when elevated hitched to it by cords or f tail, the strain is relieved. The hook that extends down from the center of the bow to the pommel of the saddle is hooked there to steady the bow while tying up the tail so as to get it even, after which it is unhooked as shown in Fig. l.

Having thus fully described my apparatus and its mode of operation, what, I claim therein as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is'- The apparatus constructed substantially as herein set forth so as to be attached to the 'back of the horse and serve to elevate his tail when he is in any position arranged and combined 1n the manner and for the purpose GIBBONS GRAY.

t set forth herein.

Witnesses:

J. J. GREENOUGH, A. P. BRowNE. 

